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NOVEMBER 2009

Window On Eurasia: Russia’s Real ‘Middle Class’ – Those Who Own Cars – Gains A Victory

posted by eagle on November, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Real ‘Middle Class’ – Those who Own Cars – Gains a Victory

Paul Goble

Vienna, November 17 – The Russian middle class, in whose emergence so many have invested so much hope for the future of that country, is neither an economic or a political category as elsewhere in the world but rather “a purely social one” consisting of car owners, a group that displays “greater organization and even greater civic maturity” than entrepreneurs.
And that uniquely Russian “class, Kasparov.ru observer Yury Gladysh argues in a comment this week, has won its first victory with first regional governments and now the Kremlin both fearful of protests in advance of upcoming elections backing away from plans to increase licensing fees on cars (www.sobkorr.ru/news/4B00F89728701.html).
The reluctance of regional officials to impose the new higher licensing fees and the subsequent decision of the Kremlin to call on the Duma to rescind them altogether, Gladysh says in a comment entitled “Those Who Disagree on Wheels,” suggests ...

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KC: One Of The World's Largest Gas Storage Facility probably Destroyed In Stavropol Region

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One of the world's largest gas storage facility probably destroyed in Stavropol region

Publication time: 15 November 2009, 15:43

According to unofficial sources coming from the Province of Nogay Steppe of the Caucasus Emirate, simultaneously with the destruction of 2 military bases in Ulyanovsk, additional resource has also been destroyed, a Subterranean Gas Storage Facility stationed at Caucasus Emirate (further referred as CE) territory. This facility is reported to be the largest in the world.

The event's "handwriting" surprisingly reminds of Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP's (hydro power plant) destruction earlier this year in Russia with simultaneous liquidation of a big lair of the so called "militia" members in the territory of CE.

According to an internal Russian news agency sources:

"Friday the 13th has become The Day of The Catastrophes in Russia. The blow was hit to the strategic targets, very sensitive ones.

Main issue of the news in the Media became the mysterious fires at military warehouses of Ulyanovsk: there have been reports on tens of casualties, thick smoke in the city, ...

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Agentura: «Novaya Gazeta» Ceased To Cooperate With Agentura.Ru

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«Novaya Gazeta» ceased to cooperate with Agentura.Ru

20.11.08 Leadership of Novaya Gazeta decided to cease the cooperation with Agentura.Ru. On November 13, the chief of personnel department of “Novaya gazeta” informed Soldatov that he was being dropped from the paper’s payroll and that Irina Borogan’s contract was not being renewed, and they dropped a link to the site from their page. The chief of personnel department said that it was taking this step as part of broader cost-cutting moves.

Agentura.Ru has been cooperating with Novaya Gazeta since January 2006 and it included the preparation of the articles and investigations on the subject of Security Services and terrorism issues. We were invited to join Novaya Gazeta specifically to cover this subject.

We have not a clear understanding why “Novaya gazeta” decided so suddenly to end all cooperation with the project; all information came only from the personnel department, no explanation insued from the editor.

Thus, Novaya gazeta, one of the few independent publications in the country in fact is ceasing ...

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NYTimes: A Web Site That Came In From The Cold To Unveil Russian Secrets

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A Web Site That Came in From the Cold to Unveil Russian Secrets

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009

ANDREI SOLDATOV sits down in the lobby of the Hotel Rossija in Moscow, orders tea, flips open his Sony Vaio laptop and logs on to the Internet to demonstrate his Web site via his wireless modem. A Vaio may not be an exploding pen or an umbrella that doubles as a machine gun, but in modern Russia, a high-tech laptop and wireless modem are about as James Bond as gadgets get. This is appropriate, given that his Mr. Soldatov's Web site, www.agentura.ru, is about Russian espionage.
Mr. Soldatov is a 25-year-old journalist who covered the espionage beat for the newspaper Izvestia from 1996 until last month. He and a dozen journalist friends who wrote about spies and intelligence for Izvestia and other Russian newspapers like Versiya, Segodnya and Kommersant, decided this year that it was time to centralize information about their subject on the Web.
"We decided that now in Russia ...

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Washington Post: Mr. Medvedev's Glasnost

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Mr. Medvedev's glasnost

Does his blunt description of what ails Russia portend real change?

Saturday, November 14, 2009

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev certainly talks a good game. Before taking office last year, he correctly diagnosed the country's biggest problem as "legal nihilism." The fact that lawlessness has worsened since then doesn't make Mr. Medvedev seem dishonest -- just powerless. On Thursday he delivered a 140-minute "state of the nation" speech that spelled out much of what has gone wrong during the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin. History suggests that this, too, won't presage much change. But the spectacle of Russia's president speaking the truth about his country was in itself a startling sight in the Putin era.

Mr. Medvedev's basic point was that Mr. Putin had failed to move Russia away from the relatively backward economy, rotten infrastructure and aggressive foreign policy of the former Soviet Union. He recited a damning litany of legacies: "a primitive raw materials economy"; "an archaic society in which the leaders think and decide ...

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